Doc Studies faculty contribute to the field and the academic discipline
Faculty Research and Production

Participatory Community Media Exhibition
Professor Patricia Zimmermann co-curated a national traveling exhibition of 41 short documentaries produced by 36 community entities by over 90 makers called, “We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media.”

Elizabeth Bishop and The Art of Losing
The first feature-length documentary on the life and literary work of the reclusive Pulitzer Prize winning poet from. Nova Scotia. Directed by Nova Scotia native John Scott.

Professor Mora-Kpai's Documentary
A film for this moment, Idrissou Mora-Kpai's feature-length documentary America Street explores the troubled history, and continuing racial inequities, in Charleston, South Carolina, set against the backdrop of the police killing of Walter Scott.

Documentary Across Platforms book
In Documentary Across Platforms, Professor Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world.

A Major Environmental Film Festival
Professor Patricia Zimmermann directs the Finger Lakes Environment Film Festival, housed in the Doc Studies program

Summer Program in Seoul, South Korea
Professor Bradley Rappa directs a documentary summer program for IC students at Hanyang University in Seoul